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Wohlfahrt, P.; Möhler, C.; Greilich, S.; Richter, C.
Abstract
A dosimetric comparison of proton treatment planning based on single-energy CT (SECT) and dual-energy CT (DECT) was recently published by Zhu and Penfold in Medical Physics. In this study, the polymer phantom Catphan Module 404 (The Phantom Laboratory, Salem, NY, USA) of known material composition was used to demonstrate an improved accuracy of dose calculation using DECT instead of SECT. To confirm this result in a more realistic human case, the authors show for a single axial CT slice the dose difference of a SECT- and DECT-based treatment plan using the anthropomorphic phantom Rando (Radiological Support Devices, Inc., CA, USA) of unknown composition.
Keywords: dual-energy CT; proton therapy; range uncertainty; absolute range verification
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Medical Physics 44(2017)10
DOI: 10.1002/mp.12418
ISSN: 0094-2405
Cited 8 times in Scopus
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